Topic: God’s ways Text: Psalm 103 Key verse: He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the people of Israel: Verse 7 This is one of my favourite Psalms, it lists for us many reasons why we must praise the Lord. Praise the Lord, my soul; all my inmost being,praise his holy name. […]
Topic: Marred by love unspeakable Text: Isaiah 53 Key verse: The servant grew up before God—a scrawny seedling, a scrubby plant in a parched field. There was nothing attractive about him, nothing to cause us to take a second look. He was looked down on and passed over, a man who suffered, who knew pain
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Topic: Marred by Failure Text: 1 Samuel 30:1-6 Key verse: David was now in great danger because all his men were very bitter about losing their sons and daughters, and they began to talk of stoning him. But David found strength in the Lord his God. David had experienced a lot of emotional pain from
Topic: Marred by an unequal yoke Text: Judges 16:13-22 Key verse: But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house. The dictionary defines a yoke as, a wooden crosspiece that is fastened over
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Topic: Marred by a family member Text: 1 Samuel 13:1-20 Key verse: Her brother Absalom saw her and asked, “Is it true that Amnon has been with you? Well, my sister, keep quiet for now, since he’s your brother. Don’t you worry about it.” So Tamar lived as a desolate woman in her brother Absalom’s
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Topic: Marred by Offence Text: 2 Samuel 6:16 -20 Key text: But as the Ark of the Lord entered the City of David, Michal, the daughter of Saul, looked down from her window. When she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she was filled with contempt for him. Offence is a deadly
Topic: Marred by grief Text: Ruth 1: 19 – 21 Key verse: So the two of them continued on their journey. When they came to Bethlehem, the entire town was excited by their arrival. “Is it really Naomi?” the women asked. 20 “Don’t call me Naomi,” she responded. “Instead, call me Mara,for the Almighty has
Topic: Marred by an accident Text: 2 Samuel 4:4 (Saul’s son Jonathan had a son named Mephibosheth, who was crippled as a child. He was five years old when the report came from Jezreel that Saul and Jonathan had been killed in battle. When the child’s nurse heard the news, she picked him up and
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Topic: Marred by adventure Text: Genesis 34:1-29 Key verse: But when the local prince, Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, saw Dinah, he seized her and raped her. In the main text of our series in Jeremiah 18:4 , we read: “And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of
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Topic: Marred by your cravings Text: Genesis 3:6 Key verse: The woman was convinced. She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would give her. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, who was with
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